SIMs & Calling CardsMon, 19 Nov 2018 17:49:27 +0100FeedCreator 1.7.3Truphone iPad Data Plan Reaches More Countrieshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/02UZ7YGdn_U/index.php
<p>The Truphone Apple SIM-based iPad data plan is available two more European countries-- specifically Ireland and Portugal, allowing customers roam through the carrier on their iPad in 40 countries.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/23151-28904-truphone1-l.jpg" border="0" alt="Truphone data" width="250" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" />Currently 6 countries offer the Truphone iPad data plan, namely Australia, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the UK. The company plans to expand the number with an additional 31 countries by end 2017, bringing the total to 39. The data plan allows customers to roam in the aforementioned countries without additional charges, without need to change carriers or additional roaming fees.</p>
<p>The backbone of the system is Apple SIM, the technology included in cellular-capable iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 (and newer) and all iPad Pro models. It saves the need to change the physical SIM card and simplifies the sign-up process through the "Set Up Mobile Data" section in the Settings app.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/02UZ7YGdn_U" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsFri, 13 Oct 2017 13:38:25 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1803:truphone-ipad-data-plan-reaches-more-countries&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89iPAD Air 2 Features a SIM Secrethttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/Cbs5QLpYLYU/index.php
<p>Apple quietly slips in&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">the iPad Air 2&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">a new approach to cellular connectivity with the Apple SIM.&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">In a totally unheralded snippet not flagged in Apple’s iPad launch presentations or press releases,&nbsp;t</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">his gives users </span><b style="line-height: 1.3em;">the flexibility to choose from a variety of data providers directly from the iPad, rather than having to source each SIM from the carriers</b><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">.</span></p><p><img mce_style="float: left; margin: 5px;" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" mce_src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/AppleSIM.png" src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/AppleSIM.png" alt="Apple SIM" width="420"></p><p>This snippet is hidden away on Apple’s website in the wireless section for the iPad Air 2. This is almost certainly deliberate, as the company would prefer a softly softly approach, rather than appear to directly challenge the carriers for control of the customer.</p><p>In the short term, this is probably designed to make sales of cellular-enabled iPads easier through non-carrier channels, as no separate stock of SIMs needs to be maintained.</p><p> It also delivers direct and real customer benefits, as they are able to select and switch between carriers as required, with far greater ease than previously. It can also allow travellers potentially to choose a local data plan when abroad, with significant savings made as a result.</p><p><b>To start, this option is only available from three US carriers</b>, plus EE in the UK, but it seems likely that others will quickly come on board, or risk losing business. It is also only on the iPad, so only for data, but we can expect Apple to want to extend Apple SIM onto the iPhone in the future.</p><p>In the larger scheme of things, this is yet another salvo fired in the direction of the telcos, who are all too often painted as over powerful. The tech industry has long desired a way to bypass the control these players exert - Steve Jobs was rumoured to have considered building a rival WiFi-based network for the original iPhone. </p><p>More recently both Google and Facebook have looked at ways to deliver services directly, ostensibly to reach areas of the globe not yet covered. But their approaches - low-orbit satellites and solar-powered drones - once established could be expanded to challenge the telcos more directly.</p><p>However so far the carriers have continued to reign supreme, dominating the sales channels for smartphones, and in most countries, successfully tying in the bulk of customers to long-term contracts. Only time will tell as to whether this latest Apple initiative will start to swing the balance of power.</p><p>Go <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad-air-2/wireless/" mce_href="http://www.apple.com/ipad-air-2/wireless/" target="_blank"><b>iPad Air 2 Wireless Details</b></a></p><p>Go <a href="http://ichannels.eu/index.php/industry-news/other-vendors/1028-google-s-satellite-plan-for-the-internet" mce_href="http://ichannels.eu/index.php/industry-news/other-vendors/1028-google-s-satellite-plan-for-the-internet" target="_blank"><b>Google’s Satellite Plan for the Internet</b></a></p><p>Go<b> <a href="http://ichannels.eu/index.php/industry-news/other-vendors/1163-facebook-looks-to-the-skies" mce_href="http://ichannels.eu/index.php/industry-news/other-vendors/1163-facebook-looks-to-the-skies" target="_blank"><b>FaceBook Looks to the Skies</b></a></b></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/Cbs5QLpYLYU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsFri, 17 Oct 2014 21:57:15 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1287:ipad-air-2-features-a-sim-secret&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89The Battle Over Nano-SIM http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/BJUnkZXqO18/index.php
<p>Yet another quarrel is going on between smartphone vendors-- Apple is fighting against Motorola, RIM and Nokia over the SIM card standard the smartphones of tomorrow will using.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/SIMcard.jpg" border="0" alt="SIM Card" width="250" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" />Apple proposes nano-SIM, which is thinner and smaller than current micro-SIMs by around 30%. It is also an Apple development, and thus makes other vendors worry Apple will be owning the patents to the technology... So much so Motorola and RIM are backing an alternate design developed by Nokia.</p>
<p>However "most" European operators are reportedly backing the Apple design.</p>
<p>The Financial Times reports both sides of the SIM arguments have tabled proposals to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)-- and the committee is set to vote on the nano-SIM matter later this week.</p>
<p>The SIM ETSI choses is of critical importance to future devices. For instance, the FT says nano-SIM might need a protective "drawer," while Nokia boasts its proposal has "significant technical advantages".</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/BJUnkZXqO18" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsTue, 27 Mar 2012 12:21:49 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=545:the-battle-over-nano-sim-&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89Apple Wants Smaller SIMshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/gCqpRKoljMk/index.php
<p>Apple wants to make thinner devices-- and to do so it demands standard SIM cards get even smaller.</p><p><img mce_style="float: left; margin: 10px;" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" mce_src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/SIMcard.jpg" src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/SIMcard.jpg" alt="SIM cards" width="250" />The news comes through Reuters' reporting comments from an Orange executive, with confirmation from ETSI (the European telecoms standards body).</p><p>No decisions on actually starting the standardisation work (a process potentially taking more than a year) is done yet, mind. The process could get a boost should the companies making the standards commitee reach a "broad consensus".</p><p>The Orange executive concludes that devices using Apple's tiny SIMs should start appearing next year. </p><p>Should Apple's proposal become a standard amongst operators-- and what Apple wants, Apple tends to get-- more vendors will follow in its wake. </p><p>Go <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/17/us-summit-orange-apple-idUSTRE74G59P20110517" mce_href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/17/us-summit-orange-apple-idUSTRE74G59P20110517" title="Apple plans smaller SIM card" target="_blank">Apple Plans Smaller SIM Card (Reuters)</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/gCqpRKoljMk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsFri, 20 May 2011 15:15:59 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=278:apple-wants-smaller-sims-&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89So That's Why Kate's Bridesmaid Was So Unhappy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/LPazBwtJyao/index.php
<P>Cameras captured <STRONG>one unhappy little girl</STRONG> looking glum amid the splendor of the British royal wedding...</P>
<P><IMG style="MARGIN: 10px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle" border=0 alt="unhappy Bridesmaid" src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/UnhappyBridesmaid.JPG" width=208 height=233 mce_style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 10px;" mce_src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/UnhappyBridesmaid.JPG"></P>
<P>Probably she was thinking of her relatives abroad...</P>
<P>British citizens abroad who are iPad users and who watched the royal wedding faced roaming charges for watching the full YouTube broadcast outside of the UK, calculates <STRONG>Tru, a mobile network for international travelers </STRONG>who was not ashamed to take advantage of the occassion to promote its new Micro Sim for iPad.</P>
<P>A British person who decided "to catch just 45 minutes of the event on their iPad while soaking up the sun in Sydney or San Francisco, will rack up costs with Orange UK of an eye watering GBP 7344, the same person on a T-Mobile contract would be liable to pay GBP 6885."</P>
<P>Tru also says "Watching the full 8 hour BBC broadcast on YouTube's Royal channel could land Orange users a GBP 78,336 bill to welcome them home - enough to pay for Kate Middleton's dress, her tiara... and even the car that takes her to the service."</P>
<P>Tru, launching its Micro SIM for the iPad, wants to engage business users at only GBP 20 for the same amount of data. <STRONG>Now that could be a match made in heaven...</STRONG></P>
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<P>Working assumptions:</P>
<UL>
<LI>* - You tube broadcasts at 340 Kbps:</LI>
<LI>* - 45 minute YouTube video = 918MB</LI>
<LI>* - 8 hour YouTube video = 9.792 GB</LI>
<LI>* - Orange Roaming Rates in US or AUS = GBP8.00 per MB</LI>
<LI>* - T-Mobile Roaming Rates in US or Aus = GBP7.50 per MB</LI></UL>
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<P>Go <A title="Tru micro Sim" href="http://www.truphone.com/" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.truphone.com/"><STRONG>Tru Micro Sim</STRONG></A></P><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/LPazBwtJyao" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsMon, 02 May 2011 09:42:07 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=262:so-thats-why-kates-bridesmaid-was-so-unhappy-&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89Maxroam Wins TechCrunch Europa Awardhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/8jymT9G8zDg/index.php
<p>TechCrunch awards Maxroam the best hardware startup prize at its 2010 Europa's (European startup awards for European and EMEA tech companies).</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/maxroam-sim.jpg" border="0" alt="Maxroam" width="234" height="175" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" />Maxroam offers SIM cards customers can use globally, together with a low-cost roaming service. The service covers over 230 countries, and Maxroam says it reduces voice call, SMS and data costs by up to 70%.</p>
<p>Customers know exactly how much they spend via online real-time billing check.</p>
<p>The SIM can be used in any standard GSM mobile phone, smartphone or mobile broadband modem.</p>
<p>Go<a href="http://www.maxroam.com/Home.aspx?cur=EUR" target="_blank" title="Maxroam"> Maxroam</a></p>
<p>Go<a href="http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/20/the-europas-european-startup-awards-2010-the-winners-and-finalists/" target="_blank" title="Techcrunch Europa Awards"> Europas European Startup Awards 2010</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/8jymT9G8zDg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsThu, 06 Jan 2011 14:53:14 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=126:maxroam-wins-techcrunch-europa-award-&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89Operators Lead to Apple iPhone Plan Axinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~3/mD5meS43nL0/index.php
<p>Apple gives up on its sim-free iPhone plans due to operator pressure, the UK Telegraph reports</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ftp-sgpartners.net/tdceu/uploads/uploaded/apple_iphone.jpg" border="0" alt="Apple iPhone" width="225" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" />The California tech giant hoped to move away from its exclusive carrier partnerships (like Vodafone, O2 and Telefonica) via programmable sim card that would allow iPhone buyers to pick any service provider they want.</p>
<p>However operators threaten to withold iPhone subsidies-- leaving Apple no choice but to kill the idea (for now, at least).</p>
<p>Apple wants to build closer relationships with customers-- and cut out operators.</p>
<p>Rumours persist Apple will bring out an integrated-sim iPad in either the run-up to Christmas or early 2011.</p>
<p>Go<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/8148898/Apples-iPhone-SIM-card-plan-thwarted.html" target="_blank" title="Apple iPhone SIM Card p"> Apple iPhone Sim Card Plan Thwarted (The Telegraph)</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimsCallingCards/~4/mD5meS43nL0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>SIMs & Calling CardsThu, 06 Jan 2011 14:53:07 +0100http://www.mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=125:operators-lead-to-apple-iphone-plan-axing-&amp;catid=63:sims-a-calling-cards&amp;Itemid=89